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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by IshKebab »

Sophira wrote: post #124
StrandedKitty wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy. I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be ben…

You're assuming that the user actually wants to sign up. In reality, it's likely that they're just clicking "Continue" in order to get rid of the dialog and couldn't care less about a signup.

Users want to use the site and don't care whether or not they are signed up. They do care about going through tedious registration forms and email verification codes. That's why sign-ups go up so much - users know they won't have to deal with the registration tedium.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by jorams »

socalgal2 wrote: post #82
lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites. note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that? The place I hate the popup the most is mobile. It comes up moments (0.5 to 2 seconds) after the site loads (say tripadvisor) which means it's possible accept it by accident as it appears under your finge…

> I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites.

But that's not relevant. The popup appears whether you're logged into a google account or not. It's just an extremely annoying popup that appears all over the web.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by tpoacher »

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

"I have no idea what you're talking about and I have never experienced this myself and I don't even know this website you speak of."

(obligatory comment just in case the wife is watching ...)

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by nosianu »

hammock wrote: post #50
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course! That's why I even added this to my uBlock filter list on mobile: accounts.google.com/gsi/client

How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? I tried a fix I found here but it resets every time I restart the browser

There is the "Lite" version by the same author written for the current Chrome.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

Works fine for me. It has a lot less options, truly "Lite", but most people will be fine. Whatever Google might do that will make this extension worthless, we will se, for now, it seems to be working. (It's funny that the Chrome Web Store lists this extension as "Featured".)

By the way, on Android, I replaced Firefox with Microsoft's Edge. It supports uBlock Origin (no "Lite" in the name, not sure what that means, I did not check the details of how much it supports since it just works as it is). It is significantly faster than Firefox (again, Android). It plays all videos, while Firefox just showed an "unsupported" placeholder for videos on some niche sex video site I happened to accidentally visit.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by eadmund »

I absolutely hate the ‘Sign in with Google’ prompt and I am very concerned that I will either accidentally or absent-mindedly tap on it and share my email address and identity with some random untrustworthy website.

The idea of identity managed by one’s browser is a pretty decent one, but the implementation which ties it to other information such as email address and which makes it so easy to accidentally use is user-hostile.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by qwertox »

StrandedKitty wrote: post #45
lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy. I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be ben…

> So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.

No. Because those who don't want to sign up do get bothered by that popup which also reminds them of the fact that Google just tracked that visit and wants you to use Google to sign up on that page.

The chuzpe it takes to do that, from part of the website owner and Google...

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by eadmund »

hammock wrote: post #50
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course! That's why I even added this to my uBlock filter list on mobile: accounts.google.com/gsi/client

How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? I tried a fix I found here but it resets every time I restart the browser

Firefox exists, and it’s pretty awesome. I’m typing this in Firefox now. I use Firefox on my phone.

Mozilla is from all appearances a pretty terrible organisation, but their browser is good.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by dotancohen »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #41
gwbas1c wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we block sharing email addresses by default? It seems every time I sign in with Google the site / app starts SPAMming me without my consent. It's pretty much why I don't use it: The SPAM.

And we should also do something about website that consider you a "customer" when you've only started an order and entered your email but you've never pressed submit to complete the order.

Does that happen to you often?
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